Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WPBoss-and quick. The man he laid hands on just happened to be in town, between ships. He was 230-03. Lieut. Commander Julius A. ("Cap") Krug, 36, who was WPB's able No. 3 man until he went into the Navy five months ago. Krug, fresh from Europe, was waiting for reassignment to sea duty when Franklin Roosevelt hurriedly summoned him to the White House...
...destroyed or damaged 17,000 houses. Only half as many civilians (2,441 a month) were being killed as in the blitz's bloodiest days, but the proportion of seriously injured stood higher. At week's end the capital had a 30-hour respite, broken when a fresh wave of robombs buzzed from new directions...
...cycle of a towel is remarkable--from the time it is picked up in hampers by a collector until it is handed out completely fresh at Weld, or Dillon, of the Indoor Athletic Building. Starting at the Indoor Athletic Building, for example, the discarded towel is tied in a bundle of 25 and taken down to Dillon, where the transformation begins. the first step in the laundering process is the giant washing machine. Holding 200 towels, this huge cylinder combines 180 degrees of live steam with plenty of soapsuds to completely cleanse and sterilize anything with which it comes...
...hand. A third, when rolling up his sleeve, is careful to keep four livid scars well covered. These and others in the group get an occasional nod from passing students, but they are different from the rest - proud, reserved, mature, cliquish, hard to know. Coeds and Navy V12 trainees fresh from high school mostly ignore them...
Louis Waldman could barely speak English when he got his first harsh lesson in U.S. labor relations. In a chandelier factory, where he worked for $2 a week, a woman's hand was smashed in an unguarded machine. Waldman, 17 and fresh from Yancherudnia in the Ukraine, was fired when he refused to sign a paper saying the accident was her fault...